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Tell HN: Twitter is 'technically wrong' again, but why can't I tweet?
Like email, twitter could have MTAs, or T(weet)TAs that cache inbound tweets until the twitter backend is up.
- brk 16y agoSure, they could. Once they figure out if they're a service, or a protocol. Also, twitter always seems kind of like a real-time thing to me. If I've been away from Twitter for even a few hours, I'm not going back and reading through dozens or hundreds of tweets. So, caching tweets via some kind of TTA seems technically doable, but only marginally valuable.
- zoowar 16y agoSure, I agree with the real time consumption of tweets/dents perspective you present. However, advertizers (cringe) would like to know that I'm happy and riding my bike today.